Stories Quotes - Page 251

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

A mystery is solved with a story.

We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious society, storytelling is seen as being soft. But people process the world through story.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.